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Drive-Thru Happiness – Cheap!

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Mt. 16:24

If you’re looking for a yummy, delicious, soothingly comfortable, quick-style, easy-of-course, no-dishes-to-wash-after, drive-through happily blissful life, cheap to boot, I wouldn’t recommend becoming a rock solid, sold out, utterly devoted, passionately, unreservedly, unabashedly, on-fire committed forever follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. When I drove...

Do You Need to Apologize?

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Mt. 5:16

“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” 1 Cor. 9:27

“My husband and I don’t like how you’ve been talking to us,” a beautiful young woman told me one evening as we stood on her porch.

My apology was immediate. “I am so sorry!” I exclaimed. “I am so thankful for your...

Come Apart

“And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.” Mt. 14:23

“Maybe you need to come apart,” a friend essentially said on the phone. “I don’t know, Lara. When God wants me to do something, it’s very clear to me. If you’re not hearing clearly, maybe you have to come apart.”

I had been sharing with him by telephone my exceeding yearning to be in God’s will, specifically in serving Him. What did He want me to d...

The Greatest Walk of Your Life

The Greatest Walk of Your Life

“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.” Ephesians 5:2

“You’re facing a lot of obstacles right now,” the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart one day as I listened for His voice which always speaks in line with His Word. I know to test all I believe I hear against the Bible because God will never speak against His own Word. If what I hear is from Him, His Word will bac...

Do You Need to Hear This?

Do You Need to Hear This?

“Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.” Mt. 18:27

“Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?” Mt. 18:33

“And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” Mt. 18:34-35...

Why I Left Alcoholics Anonymous “…I am the way, the truth...

Why I Left Alcoholics Anonymous

“…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“Your ex-husband’s AA friends are planning a prayer meeting for him,” my ex-husband’s long-time friend said as we sat in the hospital ICU waiting room where my ex-husband lay in a medically induced coma due to a chronic lung disease compounded by a life-threatening prescription pill addiction. “We’ll join hands in a circle and pray for his healing.”

As a former long-t...

Got Strength?

Got Strength?

“Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.” Psalm 105:4

“I will give you strength to do what I’ve called you to do,” the Spirit of God essentially spoke to my heart one morning. “I will not give you strength for what I’ve not called you to do. Use the strength wisely,” He admonished me. I knew immediately what He meant. And, for the umpteenth time, I believed the message He had given me was for others as well.

People ask me periodically how I lead a ministry as an...

I Was on Death Row

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Rom. 3:23

The strong, muscular black man, just cleaned up and dried off from washing up, his skin still bristling with dew-like water drops, stuck one of his big hands through the slat and reached out to grab hold of one of my small wrinkled hands to tuck it firmly, safely, gently inside its warmth. Then he extended his other hand through the slat to press lovingly into its fold the hand of the self-proclaimed skinny white guy beside...

Will You Sponsor Me?

I don’t ask for support very often these days, but I do my best to be faithful to the Lord and what I believe He places on my heart. Such is the case with coming before you today to ask if you would sponsor me.

For those who don’t know me well, I devote my life 24-7 to the Lord and ministry as an evangelist & author living and breathing to love and glorify God and to help people become and remain forever followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I care for a big bunch of special needs & senior...

The Great Forsaking

The Great Forsaking

“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every ma...